This file is to help you out on all those hard UNIX commands. Heh, heh. In the white is what you type at the prompt. Hopefully you know what the prompt is. In the green is what it does. Anything in red can and should be changed to fit your needs. I just wrote these as they came to me so they are not in any order. Good luck.
lo
Logs you out of the system. Always log out, if you dont it could be seen by others.
pico
Starts the text editor application, pico.
pine
pico filename
Either creates a new file named filename or edits the file named filename.
pine
Starts the e-mailer proggie.
man command
Displays help or info about a certain command. If you want to know what 'cd' command does, type: man cd - simple right?
mkdir subdirectory1
Creates a new directory, or folder as I prefer, called subdirectory1.
rmdir subdirectory
Removes the directory named subdirectory
cd subdirectoryname
Changes current directory to the one specified.
cd
Changes directory to home dir.
cd ..
Changes the directory up one level, or back to the previous dir.
ls
Lists content of current dir.
ls -l
Long version of directory listing.
ls -C
Lists files in vertical manner.
ls -l
This command lists the directory contents in long format. Information similar to the following is displayed when you issue this command.
Concatenates f1 and f2, sorts the result and places it in f3
pg filename
List file one page at a time. Press space to see next page.
more filename
Displays file one screen at a time. Same as above.
tail filename
Displays last 10 lines of file.
mv file1 file2
Rename file1 to file2.
cp file1 file2
Copy file1 to file2.
lpr file1
Print file1 to line printer.
ls | lpr
Print output (i.e., directory) to line printer.
tprint file1
Print file1 to local printer.
diff textfile1 textfile2
Compare textfile1 to textfile2.
cmp binfile1 binfile2
Compare binary files.
passwd
Change password.
rm filename
Remove file.
who
Display names of users on system.
who | more
Shows who is logged on right now.
who am i
Tells you who you are.
finger username
Display information about specific user.
fs quota
Indicates disk space used and left.
fs listquota
Additional info about your disk quota.
pwd
Displays the present working dir.
mv old-filename new-filename
Renames a file.
mv old-directory-name new-directory-name
Moves contents of one dir to another.
?
Displays help
Well, thats it for now. Hope this is useful to you. If not, go to a damn search engine, I'm sure they have some kind of documentation about UNIX commands. Geesh.